Word: compton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...I.C.4-A team title by lowering his own meet record for the mile from 4:08.4 to 4:07.8, and winning the 880-yd. run, just 1¼ hr. later, with a fast 1 :50. It was all just a warmup for next week's meeting at Compton, Calif, with Aussie Herb Elliott, who got ready himself by winning the California Relays mile...
...final drive, Yale's power-stroking crew, built around three veterans of the 1956 Olympic winners, defeated Pennsylvania by 2½ lengths in the 27th Blackwell Cup on the rain-flattened Harlem River. On Carnegie Lake, rowing with five sophomores in the shell, Harvard won the 22nd Compton Cup by 2½ lengths over Princeton in record time, raising the probability that the traditional Yale-Harvard race in New London next month will be a keel-hauler for both crews and will settle the championship of the east...
...Crimson heavyweight varsity set a new record Saturday to beat Princeton, MIT and Rutgers in the Compton Cup race. The varsity win was the climax of a day that saw the Crimson sweep four races at Princeton and five lightweight races at Dartmouth...
...Princeton Tigers expect to offer the varsity heavyweight crew its toughest competition of the season when the two meet with M.I.T. and Rutgers this Saturday in the annual Compton Cup race...
...Week. Encouraged, perhaps, by the "Mister," Guinness applied to the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art and somehow won a two-year scholarship. But could he afford to take it? His education fund allowed him 25 shillings (then $6.25) a week. By eating one meal a day (usually baked beans on toast), he managed to survive, and even to see a regular Saturday matinee. At school he worked hard; after hours, he tailed pedestrians all over London, mimicking their gait and gestures; and at the annual recital, the judges-Actor Gielgud among them-gave him a top prize...